Rohit Shetty is all geared up to kick-start the grand finale of Khatron Ke Khiladi 9 and announce the winner of the season. Check out LIVE updates from the show right here.

Rohit Shetty is all set to kick-start the grand finale of Khatron Ke Khiladi 9. Fans are excited to see who takes home the winning trophy. Bharti Singh, Riddhima Pandit, Aly Goni, Shamita Shetty, Aditya Narayan and Punit Pathak are the finalists of the season. The finale will also have Akshay Kumar performing a couple of stunts with Rohit Shetty. The Suryavanshi actor has also hosted the stunt-based reality show before, which means fans are in for a lot of nostalgia. The grand finale will also have a couple of performances that you cannot miss at all. The show will be replaced by the singing reality show, Rising Star which will go on air next weekend onward.

We asked fans which finalist they wanted to see take home the trophy and Punit won the poll by more than 50% votes. Speaking about Punit, Aditya exclusively told us, “For the first five or six weeks, Punit has single-handedly won all the stunts. My respect for him increased when I was out of action and was advised by the doctors to not perform any stunts. He was asked to perform on my behalf and he could have gotten me eliminated easily but he played really well.”

Here are LIVE updates from the grand finale of Khatron Ke Khiladi 9!

9.15 pm: The episode begins with Bharti Singh making the audience laugh by mocking Rohit Shetty and the host turning up right behind her. She then progresses to taking digs at her husband, Haarsh Limbachiyaa, making everyone else give her a standing ovation. Rohit thanks fans for making KKK9 one of the most sucessful shows again. Aditya Narayan then performs to promote Rising Star. Aditya performs the finale task of the season first with other finalists cheering for him and he completes the task.

9.30 pm: Aly Goni goes next but is unable to complete the task. He breaks down as he gets a cramp while other finalists try to cheer him up. But he gets up again and tries to complete the task but then aborts the task. Riddhima Pandit goes next and Rohit guides her. Though she follows the instructions properly, she ends up aborting the task. Rohit announces that Aly is out of the grand finale race. Punit Pathak and Shamita Shetty will now have to compete against each other. Before the task begins, Rohit asks contestants to take a lie detector test where they will have to break an egg on their forehead if they lie. If the breaks properly, then the contestants are lying.

9.50 pm: Shamita begins the task first and quite impressively finishes all the stages of the task. Punit goes in next and completes the task. Punit beats Shamita and reaches the finale. Rohit then announces that Aditya, Punit and Riddhima are the top 3 finalists.

10.05 pm: The contestants then introduce the contestants of Rising Star. Makers then play a video of Akshay Kumar performing a couple of stunts to meet the finalists of this season and beat them. Akshay then joins everyone on the stage and reminsces about hosting the show 10 years ago.

10.15 pm: Akshay asks the contestants to perform the Kesari challenge and plays videos of fans who also attempted the challenge. Akshay asks Shankar Mahadevan to take up a challenge and the singer challenges Akshay to sing in return. Shankar then sings Breathless on popular demand. Akshay and Rohit rag Bharti with the reptile Harsh.

10.35 pm: A terrified Bharti holds the reptile and also kisses it. Bharti then also introduces her show Khatra Khatra Khatra and challenges Aly to hold the reptile and kiss it. Human Haarsh is then given a task of walking through a box of water snakes while singing Dil Diyan Gallan. He leaves the audience in splits. Rohit then takes the audience back to Argentina where the top 3 finalists are asked to perform the finale task.

11.05 pm: Rohit explains the finale task which comprises of a couple of difficult tasks that include land, water and air. This is, without a doubt, one of the most challenging tasks of the season. Punit is asked to go first after which Riddhima and Aditya will follow.

Punit gets stuck at one particular place where he is not able to unlock a certain door but pulls it off with determination. He completes the task successfully. Riddhima gears up to go next. Riddhima gets stuck at the same place as Punit but completes it eventually. Aditya gets overwhelmed since he had performed the first task of the season and will be performing the last one, too. Aditya also completes the final task of the season. Punit and Aditya become the top 2 finalists.

11.45 pm: Rohit calls the top two finalists and other dignitaries on stage to announce the winner of the show. Punit is declared the winner of the show.

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Khatron Ke Khiladi 9 Grand Finale LIVE Updates: Punit Pathak is declared the winner of the showDescription:Rohit Shetty is all geared up to kick-start the grand finale of Khatron Ke Khiladi 9 and announce the winner of the season. Check out LIVE updates from the show right here.Anusha Iyengar